Sunday, November 2, 2014

Horizon - Blog Tour day 1

Horizon is out in the wild, which means the Horizon blog tour has officially kicked off!

Day one features an extract from Chapter 1 of Horizon on the Voyager Blog.

Something was stuck in her throat,
hard and
unyielding. Her gullet closed
painfully around it. Her stomach convulsed. Hot puke welled up and sprayed from
her mouth. It stuck to her face, running down her neck and breasts.Her teeth clamped around some kind of tube, but it
was too tough to bite through and her hands seemed locked to her sides. She
called for help in the darkness, an incoherent rasping that she hoped someone —
anyone — would hear. She was fighting for breath...

SF quotes

"the Culture had placed its bets—long before the Idiran war had been envisaged—on the machine rather than the human brain. This was because the Culture saw itself as being a self-consciously rational society; and machines, even sentient ones, were more capable of achieving this desired state as well as more efficient at using it once they had. That was good enough for the Culture."— Iain M. Banks